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another Winston Smith
About me
| Name | another Winston Smith |
|---|---|
| User since | Sept. 6, 2008 |
| Number of add-ons developed | 0 add-ons |
| Average rating of developer's add-ons | Not yet rated |
In a little more detail...
2000 - the year 1984 got here - Fight for laws against website and advertiser info theft. If Google (with its strange idea what "evil" means) claims it'll kill its biz, well, I'd rather pay a $E20/year search fee than see someone jailed 'cause of what kind of sites DoubleClick tagged him reading.
Let's do something even MORE radical and decommercialize the 'net entirely .. uh, 'scuse me, someone just kicked in the door - another W and it Will happen here folks.
My Reviews
RequestPolicy
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
Good Idea but Too Much .... that is if you have assembled the programs you need to make a reliable policy choice - NoScript,Ghosteray, CounterPixel, etc.
They not only give you a choice of detailed information needed to answer RequestPolicy, but they are already taking steps to either block a site or draw its fangs.
If I approve something in NoScript, which takes action, doing what I need to do to lower the Red Flag is a bit redundant.
The cure would be for the author to work with NoScript - a fantastic program at blocking intruders known or unknown to you, Ghosteray, for some reason Not As Popular because it ID's infotheft organizations ala DoubleClick, and, without EVER SAYING SO (I've suggested this to author) BLOCKING every one it can name, Counterpixel, which, as far as I've determined, neither blocks nor shows the offending screen pixels, the (untested here) PluginChecker, which should block or at least ID plug-ins installed by persons other than those at your keyboard, etc.
(oh, I'm leaving NettiCat's work out and a dozen others)
AND producing a single policy program - what is allowed always, what is NEVER allowed without a specific unlock from the User, what policies are site- or even page-related, permanently or just for a d/l.
THAT'S what we desperately need, a single report on EVERYTHING a site is throwing at us, so we can give appropriate answers - and what we do not have ... yet.
Good Idea which does too much of what others still do better E for Effort.
Stony Brook University Sparky and MySBMail
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
ahm, that's "The State University of New York at Stony Brook," which, like the three other SUNY University Centers, is *not* in the community designated: (SUNYSB is in E. Setauket; Albany is just over the city line of the capital city, Buffalo is also just outside the city's line and Binghamton is in Vestel, a long-standing joke by those who know their Greco-Roman culture. Nobody's found one yet, they say.
Seriously, this belongs in a category "Special Communities" the largest for the "this is my Life on Line, can I buy you some bandwidth?", various Fox-related sports themes, and here, one that applies ONLY to about 100,000 students and staff sitting under one big megaserver.
Penelope
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
I've just been going through all the wonderful add-ons available for T'Bird, and, on most of these items I like, I have wanted to comment, in 67,68 cases- JUST ADD PENELOPE! Now, it would be nice to see it updated to be Penelope 1.n, with more Eudora items, but yes, this is the best we can get now, and yes because it's available and because yes, because it has so many great features and I say YES!
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.1a22).International E-mail Addresses
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
I'd like to offer a REAL review, but when logged in, I mouse as told and get told "login", logged in again and...
International E-mail Addresses
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
I'd like to offer a REAL review, but when logged in, I mouse as told and get told "login", logged in again and...
Penelope
Rated 2 out of 5 stars
Old Eudora's gotten increasingly creaky and impossible to find. That is sad, because so has any progress involving a reported Qualcomm grant to Mozilla to take over the beast
Development on , Qualcomm/Mozilla's promised support for a real MAIL-oriented tool, not an all-in-one jack-of-al-trades, master-of-none stopped at the first hurdle: There's no BlaBlah button - or other look'n'feel items, like countless daughter windows, not the ONE we're used to. And you'll have to rewrite all your filters and face a different mailbox system entirely - and lose the ability to use many other T'bird feature enhancers. Please, it is YEARS past time for at least a beta of v2.0!
Web Bug Detector
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
I guess I'm not cool enough for experimental security programs - after getting my 5th repeated hash code error of the night, I was able to go strait to the foxbeacon site and d/l it myself, a provision I wish the other four had made
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.0).Chaff
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
Third attempt to d/l a pink program this eve dealing w/ security, and bashing doubleclick, and ilk third error -261. Repetedly.
Why am I getting a might paranoid? hs the fox sold out??? I sincerely hope NOT!
eQuakeAlert!
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
first, five stars so not to mess your record - this program is apparently loved by geolovers,not so well liked depending on distance from a fault.
Anyway: 1) if this program actually has feature to use speakers to rumble system, please make them off-able.
2) it *may* be possible to choose report centers, at least in US, where data from Lamont-Dougherty (n of NYC) would be the most immediately critical. If they jump, bigtime, I head for door, because a) shockwave may not have reached me yet, b) at 4 mi inland on a barrier island, I want to be 10 mi inland and turn to the tsunami reports when I get there.
Note for I want MY nation, this *could* and should be an ez-patch, just changing the line for the nearest observatory and its data format. BUT if the Big One hits out West (boy is us going to need world help!) every station is going to report it, If Aetna breaks its slumber, local station *wherever* will be jumping, and (wishing no nation or region any more of an earthquake than I'd want) ditto for recent big one in China, though BIG in terms of damage might nogt be big on a the local scale, villages are crushed by minor temblors if not built to code, and there are reports saying the Appalachian Fault Line could go as easily as the California plate complex or elsewhere on the Ring of Fire.
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